Premarital Sex: Almost Everyone's Doing ItStudy Shows More Than 90 Percent Of Americans Have Had Premarital Sex, Even Older Generations

(AP) More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.

"This is reality-check research," said the study's author, Lawrence Finer. "Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades."

Finer is a research director at the Guttmacher Institute, a private New York-based think tank that studies sexual and reproductive issues and which disagrees with government-funded programs that rely primarily on abstinence-only teachings. The study, released Tuesday, appears in the new issue of Public Health Reports.

although, i never knew this until 1 day in my early 20s i just happened to be looking at my parents original marriage certificate which was dated in march of 1956. i was born in july the same year. then it hit me. hey, i'm a love child!

Yep, as everyone knows people have sex. Those with a fundamentalist opposition argue on their own somewhat illogical points of view but ultimately they're disregarding the biological imperative. No matter how much they howl, preach, and rant, it will happen. It is a healthy and natural thing, and their attempts to hamper the natural course of human behavior always seem to lead to things getting a lot worse where they succeed.

_________________I am disillusioned enough to believe nothing will get any better yet compelled to make the attempt regardless